Reviews

“Sally Wolfe has created a brave and intelligent heroine, whose spiritual quest tests her mercilessly. Consolations, a beautifully-told story of spiritual longing and forbidden love, moves across the landscape from leafy New England to the arroyos of Santa Fe, carrying the reader along on an engrossing journey of spiritual and sexual awakening.”
-Elizabeth McKenzie, Author of critically-acclaimed novel, STOP THAT GIRL

AMAZON REVIEWS

I would definitely recommend this book – Sally Wolfe’s novel, Consolations, is a very interesting, personal, moving read. Sally’s writing style really draws you into the story, as if you are looking over Fiona’s… Read more

Hauntingly beautiful – Fiona Ingram’s story is full of passion, secrets and soul searching. This is a book that stays with you long after reading.

highly recommend!! – This is a deep and engaging journey of the heart and spirit — I felt such a resonance with both what was being described and the beauty of how the story is told … Read more

Weaving Love – Sally Wolfe’s first published novel led me through the path of my own life’s heartbreaks and renewals through her character’s subtle but powerful connections with spirituality,… Read more

How I came to write Consolations.

As is often the case with fiction, my story is not Fiona’s story; and yet it is.

I wanted to be a cloistered nun when I was fifteen. I formally applied after high school and received a letter from the Mother General saying that I needed to experience the world for at least a year, go to college, get a job, and make my request again.

Not surprisingly, I never did. (It was the sixties.)

Thirty years later, inspired by Thomas Merton’s writings, the old longing awakened. I left the hi-tech world of Silicon Valley where I was enjoying “success” and a promise of more, and entered a Cistercian monastery at age 46. MORE